{"id":42,"date":"2006-04-02T23:37:46","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T06:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenmrogers.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-04-02T23:37:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T06:37:46","slug":"bored-googling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Bored Googling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:31 in the morning, I was bored and avoiding work.  I just watched West Wing which is currently in the middle of Election night for a presidential election.  So I googled my old Bosses at the Kerry Campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Ealons is the Communications Director for a Congressman.<br \/>\nFran Lalas just ended working on a New York Lieutenant Governor&#8217;s race.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd Myesha Ward is testifying against Democrats in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Myseha was sent to Wisconsin in late September, 2004.  And apparently the night before election night, some Democrats weren&#8217;t too kind to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of Campaigns&#8230;Here are some Clips:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The phrase &#8220;Operation Elephant Takeover&#8221; came up innocently enough, said Democratic consultant Opel Simmons III, at a staff meeting to search for &#8220;just kind of a rallying point&#8221; in the home stretch of the 2004 Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses at the trial of five Democratic staffers accused of slashing tires on 25 vans outside Republican Party offices in the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 2, 2004, said the &#8220;operation&#8221; was originally just a slogan on a dry-erase board, but as election day neared, it became an agenda for hijinks.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was to decorate the Republican headquarters on W. Capitol Drive with Kerry-Edwards signs and bumper stickers before the polls opened. But it didn&#8217;t quite work out that way once a few staffers drove by the GOP office on their way to Democratic headquarters late that night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were prepared to go, but then when they came back, they said there were security guards that were circling the office,&#8221; Myesha Ward, one of several political operatives who came from outside Wisconsin to aid Democratic efforts, testified Thursday. &#8220;So we decided to call it off.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_qn4196\/is_20060113\/ai_n16010146#continue<\/p>\n<p>You can find the play by play here:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~action\/2004\/states\/wicharge012405.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:31 in the morning, I was bored and avoiding work. I just watched West Wing which is currently in the middle of Election night for a presidential election. So I googled my old Bosses at the Kerry Campaign. Corey Ealons is the Communications Director for a Congressman. Fran Lalas just ended working on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}